site.btaOpposition Parties Looking for Ways to Consolidate, Says National Assembly Chair After Calls for Her Resignation

National Assembly Chair Nataliya Kiselova Friday said that opposition parties are looking for a way to consolidate and that the calls for her resignation are part of this. She visited Stara Zagora before the start of a national party conference entitled BSP-United Left: Successes and Challenges. Kiselova pointed out that each of the parliamentary opposition parties is looking for support from the others and the question is what topic will unite them.

The National Assembly has taken several small but important steps during the plenary session, Kiselova emphasized, adding that among the most important steps are the efforts to obtain funds under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. She noted that the efforts of a number of governments and parliaments to obtain a fixed date for entering the eurozone have been rewarded as well, and that a significant part of the bodies whose mandates had expired for more than five years were renewed. The most difficult topics remain for the next parliamentary session, after the summer recess, Kiselova said.

"The topic of the Anti-Corruption Commission is going from one extreme to the other, namely from electing the most honest people to closing the commission down because we did not nominate them," Kiselova pointed out, adding that at the moment there is no reason for an extraordinary session of the National Assembly in August, as there are rules by which the so-called nomination commission will work.

"This is a commission of five representatives of various institutions. All participants have received invitations and have confirmed participation. Today they have their first meeting, an organization has been created in the National Assembly so that they can calmly consider the submitted nominations. There were also concepts presented, which I published on the National Assembly website yesterday. It now depends on the pace of work of the nomination commission whether there will be an extraordinary session of the National Assembly," Kiselova stated. She called on the members of the commission to be left to work in peace. "Let them do their job and then we can talk about whether it will be in August or in September," she noted.